I was about to ring the bell when sud­denly some­one opened the door. It was Diya; she was look­ing lovely, dressed casu­ally in a Tee and blue jeans.

“Hi” I said.

“Hi! Come in”

“Thanks, but we bet­ter get going as Rohit and Nisha would be wait­ing for us. Here I got you a rose and a box of choco­late” I handed them to her. For the first time I didn’t have words to say.

“Thank you. It’s so nice of you.”

“You are look­ing good today” what! Good that’s it, couldn’t use a bet­ter word. This is what hap­pens when your heart is beat­ing faster than your brain can think.

“Thank you.” Diya was blushing.

She sat behind me on the bike and held my waist. Can’t describe the feel­ing it was just out of this world. She sat close to me, giv­ing me goose bumps. I drove more care­fully than I usu­ally do and was hop­ing this ride would not come to an end. Every Red traf­fic light seemed beau­ti­ful. The honk­ing cars and the passer-​​by didn’t seem to matter.

Alas it had to end we reached the cin­ema hall. I called up Rohit and he told that the show was start­ing late and hence Nisha and he had decided to have din­ner before the show and were wait­ing for us at the restau­rant. We went to the restau­rant and found Nisha and Rohit seated at the table. We exchanged pleas­antries as we took our places. Diya was sit­ting oppo­site to me, while Nisha to the left of me and Rohit sat oppo­site Nisha. Rohit had already ordered so that we wouldn’t get late for the show.

“Raj, so you gave her a rose” Nisha whis­pered to me.

“Yes” I whis­pered back.

“She is look­ing beau­ti­ful, isn’t she, if you don’t like her can I try my luck” it was Rohit this time. I kicked him from under the table.

The two girls also started whis­per­ing. The sit­u­a­tion was get­ting a bit embar­rass­ing and funny. We kept exchang­ing glances with each other with­out speak­ing much. Finally the din­ner arrived and we ate qui­etly and left for the theatre.

In the the­atre Diya and I sat together. Except for the odd talk about, jimmy shergill, Shahrukh’s sweater, Kim’s voice, Uday’s dance and Amitabh’s emo­tional last scene we did not talk much, but I kept look­ing at her unable to con­cen­trate at the movie. She was so beau­ti­ful. The calm­ness on her face and the sparkle in her eyes and a sweet smile on her lips; wow!

Finally the 3 hour long movie got over and I was sad, not because the movie had a sad end­ing but because now we had to leave. We came out, and talked about the movie for a while. Rohit and Nisha left for home and I left with Diya to drop her. Dur­ing the ride she did not say a thing, but the ride was still very beau­ti­ful, the roads were empty and a nice breeze run­ning across the face. We finally arrived at her place.

“So, we have reached.”

“Thank you for every­thing Raj, it was a won­der­ful evening”

“It’s okay” what? Not again dude? What’s with you didn’t have bet­ter words to say ’ it was my plea­sure’ idiot.

“I should move now.” She started walk­ing towards her main gate.

“Diya” I called. “Actu­ally Diya I wanted to say some­thing, I don’t know how to say this but ……” I paused for a moment. She had come close to me. Then I held one of her hand and looked into her eyes, caught my breath and then slowly I moved towards her. I drew her near me and hugged her.

She broke the hug and planted a kiss on my cheeks and ran inside.

I stood there for a few sec­onds try­ing to get hold of myself and assess the sit­u­a­tion. But now noth­ing seemed to mat­ter. The jour­ney from her house to my house didn’t seem to exist, I just kept think­ing about her. I finally reached home and saw, Rohit and Nisha waiting.

“So, what hap­pened?” Rohit asked.

“What do you mean what hap­pened? Noth­ing happened.”

“Come on you can tell us. We are your friends’ right?” Nisha said.

“Noth­ing hap­pened. Honestly.”

“Yeah sure we believe you. Now come on lets go to the ter­race.” Rohit insisted.

I parked my bike and we went to the ter­race. We sat at our usual place.

“Now tell us what hap­pened? What did she say when you gave her the rose.” Nisha said.

“Noth­ing hap­pened, just the ride was lovely.”

“So what did you say?” Rohit asked anxiously.

“Noth­ing!”

“Noth­ing! You mean noth­ing hap­pened, you are jok­ing right?” I smiled “Okay now what hap­pened when you left her at her place.” Rohit asked.

“Well I ……”

“Yes come on be quick tell us what hap­pened” Nisha was really excited.

“I just hugged her.”

“Wow! And then what hap­pened” Rohit was get­ting more excited.

“She kissed me.” I held the cheek where Diya had kissed me, feel­ing the sen­sa­tion of her soft lips on my cheeks.

“She What?” Rohit was startled.

“Wow Raj, that was quick” Nisha. I was blush­ing like a ripe red tomato.

“Oh how roman­tic; full moon; lovely breeze; a very beau­ti­ful night.” Nisha was feel­ing roman­tic as well I guess.

Both of them started to jump in joy and started to dance. Then they stopped and said we should celebrate.

“Raj tomor­row you come over for lunch. Rohit you also, I have already called Diya. Wow tomor­row there will be lot of excitement.”

“Great, I would be there. I would bring him along as well.” Rohit was eager as well for the party. Not sure why were the two so excited. Maybe they both have lost it. They both started mak­ing plans for tomor­row com­pletely for­get­ting that I was also present.

After much pes­ter­ing and teas­ing they finally let me go. Boy what a day, I need to tell my diary about this.

“My hearts gone,
I don’t know where.
Somewhere it must be,
Wanting to beat.
Maybe it’s with the girl,
With the beautiful smile
She robbed me,
and took everything.
Everything………….